Re: port scan coming in from amazon ec2 instance?

No I don't; I have a Youview box and some of the backend for that seems to be hosted on Amazon's servers, and I use crashplan which also uses Amazon for some stuff, but this was definitely a prolonged and thorough port scan attempt. It definitely looked from the logs that someone was scanning every single port on my router between the range specified. Weird though as Amazon specifically exclude port scanning from their T&C's so it is a prohibited use of their service (though perhaps that is why they took over 8 hours to do 10000 ports - equates to around one every couple of seconds - perhaps to get around some automated countermeasure at Amazon to block such use).Here is the beginning of the probe:

Re: port scan coming in from amazon ec2 instance?

No I don't; I have a Youview box and some of the backend for that seems to be hosted on Amazon's servers, and I use crashplan which also uses Amazon for some stuff, but this was definitely a prolonged and thorough port scan attempt.

OK I wonder if it might be more to do with crashplan maybe? It's something you might want to broach with Amazon perhaps.Adam